Study suggests hip fractures not caused by benzodiazepine use after all
...lead to disability and death among the elderly. An expected benefit of limiting access to these drugs is a decrease in the incidence of falls and resulting hip fractures. However, no data exist to demonstrate this policy effect. Anita Wagner, PharmD, MPH, DrPH, lead author of the study and assistant professo...Leading European experts in magnetic resonance for animals
...d this was funded entirely by the UAB. The work is expected to be completed by May 2007, with the equipment being installed in June. The BIOSPEC 70/30 is very similar to magnetic resonance equipment used for clinical purposes, and makes it possible to carry out magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy on ...Study finds major variation in Medicare Rx drug costs
...their own drug lists, premiums and co-pays. "The expected costs of even the least-expensive plans in each st...te. In two of the four cases, they found that the expected costs of prescription drugs were comparatively higher in the states with comparatively lower average...Better review of new technology is needed to reduce health costs
...g--more than three times the rate of inflation--is expected to increase to more than 20 percent of the GDP in the next decade. In the paper, Redberg shows how current health care technology policy and adoption processes enable high costs to occur. She proposes an evidence-based process that would produce a ...European scientists receive funding from EU to develop novel therapy for cancer
...or the survival of cancer cells. This strategy is expected to achieve maximal therapy with minimal side effects. Dr Aristides Eliopoulos of the University of Crete Medical School who co-ordinates the Apotherapy research program, commented: "We are delighted to have received funding under this program grant....Operations research pioneer outlines ways to make kidney transplant allocation more equitable
...red with longer waits and vice versa) and what the expected outcomes for transplanting each grade are, given their personal health profile. From there, the patient works with his/her physician to decide on what the minimum grade of kidney they would be willing to accept is. In essence, Zenios' model creates...Most hospital performance measures for heart failure not linked to improved patient outcomes
... patients with atrial fibrillation. Although it is expected that application of these carefully developed heart failure inpatient performance measures should result in substantial improvement in heart failure patient outcomes, available data validating these measures are limited. Gregg C. Fonarow, M.D., of t...Study examines risk of soft tissue sarcomas in hereditary retinoblastoma survivors
...hat are no longer used. "Improved treatment can be expected to reduce the incidence of soft tissue (and bone) ...t they were treated with radiation and that can be expected to continue to occur in older survivors, who will require more careful follow-up."...Study finds limitations in publicly reported quality-of-care indicators for heart-failure patients
...ct and indirect costs of heart failure in 2006 are expected to be $29.6 billion. Heart failure occurs when the heart cannot pump enough blood to the body's other organs. The heart keeps working but not as efficiently as it should. This condition is caused by narrowed arteries, heart attack, high blood pressur...Medicare facing future bankruptcy: 'IEEE-USA Today's Engineer' cites $30 trillion unfunded liability
...e program; the remainder by recipients. With the expected growth in those eligible for benefits and the unce...edicare Part A, which covers hospital services, is expected to run out of money by 2018. The prescription drug program (Medicare Part D) is also unfunded. To pr...Defibrillators should be available in ski resorts
...unicated well because they all knew what they were expected to do. But they were unable to locate a defibrillator in the first aid room. "We were on the top of the mountain, a cable-car journey from either of the two local towns. The patient remained lying in the snow, as we were unable to move him," she ex...Intelligent children more likely to become vegetarian
... of many other lifestyle preferences that might be expected to vary with intelligence, but which may or may not have implications for health, they conclude....Interagency relations key to improving outcomes from UK health research
...ngle fund for health research in the UK is to reap expected results, says this weeks lead Editorial. The single fund will be called the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR) and its interim chair will be John Bell, currently Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford. ...Study finds gender differences related to eating and body image
...nd the body type they thought their same-sex peers expected them to have; then they viewed one of the three PowerPoint presentations. Following the presentations, they went to a second classroom where they completed a follow-up questionnaire. It was in the second classroom where food in the form of pretzel...Mayo Clinic -- Collaborating to move treatment research forward
...e to therapy between the two arms of the trial are expected next year. In addition to the three studies above, Mayo researchers also reported on the use of lenalidomide in combination with melphalan and prednisone (MPR) in elderly patients who typically cannot take high-dose dexamethasone. MPR appears effect...Law professor finds home health-care workers have few legal protections
...nomy and the number of home health care workers is expected to grow by 70 percent by 2014, she said. Unfortunately, because home health care is considered low-skill work, Smith said workers are poorly paid, and receive few if any benefits. Depending on their employers, many home health care workers are also ...Major visual disorders in people over 40 may be costing the US economy billions
... conditions," the authors write. Many costs are expected to increase in the future as the American population ages, the authors note. "Public health efforts to screen for and treat currently undiagnosed disease may be likely to increase direct medical care costs, but if effective, they will also improve vi...New research shows big improvement in survival after stroke
...rate of stroke, the number of strokes occurring is expected to rise, with the ageing of the population and improved survival. In three separate studies between 1981 and 2003, researchers investigated the rate of short and medium-term survival after stroke and found that the probability of survival increased...Infectious disease researchers develop basis for experimental melanoma treatment
...radiation, has since been further developed and is expected to enter early-stage human clinical studies in 2007. "This is an excellent example of how scientific research in one discipline may have payoffs in a completely unpredictable way," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "This important AIDS-rela...SCAI president testifies before FDA on safety of drug-eluting stents
...ated with a drug-eluting stent, over what would be expected with a bare metal stent. This must be weighed against the substantial benefits of drug-eluting stents, Dr. Dehmer said. Simply put, patients who avoid renarrowing of their coronary arteries as a result of drug-eluting stent placement avoid the need...